August 11, 2026 1 min read

Response Engineering for Training-Free Alignment of LLMs

A practical tutorial on Best-of-N, self-consistency, Reflexion, and Mixture-of-Agents for improving model responses without retraining.

Authors: Son The Nguyen, Tommy Cheng, Theja Tulabandhula

Training-Free Alignment of LLMs
Large Language Models
Response Engineering
AI Alignment
Inference

Watch the tutorial segment on Response Engineering The video opens at 2:06:50 in the full NAIRR 2026 tutorial.

NAIRR 2026 Training-Free Alignment tutorial

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This hands-on tutorial explores response engineering techniques that improve language-model outputs at inference time, including Best-of-N selection, self-consistency, Reflexion, and Mixture-of-Agents.

This notebook was developed and curated by Son The Nguyen for the NAIRR 2026 Training-Free Alignment of LLMs tutorial.